“And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.”
Matthew 3:15 KJV
Jesus replied to John the Baptist that it was only right to do all that God required and then John baptised Jesus. John was fulfilling the righteous requirement of the presentation of the Lamb of God as the sacrifice for sins. John had to publicly wash the Lamb of God to fulfill the requirement of the law. Jesus was not repenting but offering Himself as God’s sinless Lamb. At Jesus’s age the Levitical priests were ordained to serve and now Jesus was dedicated as the High Priest over God’s household of faith. John baptised with water; our Father God baptised Jesus with Holy Spirit’s power; Jesus baptises us with the same Holy Spirit and with fire. Glory to God!
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